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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — DECEMBER 1998

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New Books List: 415 titles

  • The Youngest Miss Ward

    Joan Aiken

    Harriet Ward, known as Hatty by her sisters Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris, does not at the age of twelve seem destined for a career of infamy. However, treated with utter contempt by her elder sisters, she is banished by her father to an uncle's estab...

  • A Husband for Christmas

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    Barbara Stone can't believe her wedding-wary eyes. Her boss is getting married in less than three weeks to someone with the initials S.E.C.! Then Sam Reed reveals the identity of his mystery bride, and Barbara knows she's really in trouble. Not only ...

  • A Perfect Summer

    Barbara Allister

  • Crisis at Crystal Reef

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Stranded with a Tall, Dark Stranger

    Laura Anthony

    SNOWBOUND AT CHRISTMAS The tall, dark stranger needed Wren Matthews's help -- and the shy schoolmarm couldn't turn away a man in distress. She didn't know why Keegan Winslow was out in the middle of a snowstorm, but the spirit of the h...

  • A Murder in Thebes

    Anna Apostolou

    A LEGENDARY CROWN... A BAFFLING PUZZLE... A KILLER IN ANCIENT GREECE... Never try to fool Alexander the Great...or betray him. The Thebans tried, and he burned their great city to the ground. But he left the temple of Oedipus untouched, hoping t...

  • The Pretender

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in ...

  • The Spy Novels of John Le Carre

    Myron Aronoff

  • Getting Zach Back

    Daphne Atkeson

    IN TANDEM Zack Stone thought that Allison Jenson was a knockout -- until she knocked him right off his racing bicycle and landed him in the hospital. Allison didn't even know that he'd been injured -- until the pretty nurse realized just who her ...

  • Iceblood

    James Axler

    More than two hundred years after a nuclear holocaust all but vaporized America, a new order evolved from the Deathlands to inflict its - rule on the fortified cities beyond whose walls are the newly christened Outlands. Deep in Cerberus redoubt, Ka...

  • Lair of the Lizard

    E.C. Ayres

    E.C. Ayers's Hour of the Manatee won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America award, and his subsequent P.I. novels, all with an environmental undertone, have garnered nothing but high marks from readers. In the fourth outing for Ayers's...

  • Jack Frost

    Jennifer Baker

  • A Handful of Gold

    Mary Balogh
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    Three timeless romances to treasure this holiday season 'TIS THE SEASON FOR FALLING IN LOVE... A Handful of Gold by Mary Balogh Not only is Julian Dare dashing and wealthy, but he's the heir to an earldom. So what do you get a man who...

  • A Touch of Myrrh

    Suzanne Barclay
    in

    Although the brooding Lord William Sommerville has vowed never to love again, he finds himself being drawn to the enchanting Rosemary Bainbridge, and pledges to defend her from her ruthless enemies....

  • Western Dreams

    Becky Barker

    DON'T FENCE ME IN Kara Conley is back at the Markham ranch -- and Reece Markham is at the end of his rope! Maybe he did love her once, but he can't get any work done with her around. Kara's just too beautiful -- and too sassy. He's got half a m...

  • Valentine Magic

    Margaret Barker

    No strings? Katie's ex-boyfriend had been a rat, so she was determined that her new image should be independent and definitely single! But spending Valentine's Day--also her birthday-- with Dr. Tim Fielding was clearly not the best way to go...

  • The Genius of Shakespeare

    Jonathan Bate

  • Murder in the Holy City

    Simon Beaufort

    This first book in the critically acclaimed 11th century mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey Mappestone. Jerusalem, 1100. On returning to the city following an exhausting desert patrol, Crusader knight Sir Geoffrey Mappestone hears screams comin...

  • The Love Match

    Rexanne Becnel
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    You're invited to four unforgettable weddings -- each with a scandal that would make a bride blush! In this delightfully wicked collection, four bestselling authors depict weddings at their most scandalous -- and tying the knot has never been...

  • The Last Goodbye

    Malcolm Bell

  • Death at Windsor Castle

    C.C. Benison

    MURDER IN THE THRONE ROOM... Housemaid Jane Bee's summer duties run to dusting the props for a sumptuous week of pageantry at Windsor Castle, beginning with the Investiture of new Knights of the Garter. On the very morning of the ceremony, Her Maj...

  • Living at the End of the World

    Marina Benjamin

    As we approach the year 2000 why have millenarian groups flourished? A study of why, throughout recorded history, various religious groups have felt the need for apocalyptic readings of history. What is it about modern life that makes such views wide...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Ripoff Queen

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Looking for a Hero

    Patti Berg

    He Was a Mystery Man... Morgan "Black Heart" Farrell can't believe that the honey-haired siren is telling him the truth: that he's sailed right into the twentieth century. He desperately needs to get back to his ship and his own time. But for now,...

  • The Sheriff and the Impostor Bride

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    HER PREGNANT TWIN WAS MISSING! Suddenly it was up to Rachel Jensen, the sister most likely to land in a sticky situation, to save her beloved twin from a hotbed of trouble. But Rachel hadn't counted on strapping Oklahoma sheriff Riley Hunter. The ...

  • Thief of Midnight

    Cheryln Biggs

    HE WAS HANDSOME AS SIN -- AND JUST AS HARD TO RESIST... Maybe Jake Walker was the best-looking man in the county, but Clanci James knew he was also a louse! Convinced he was sabotaging her family's ranch, she'd agreed to seduce him while her gran...

  • A Vow Of Compassion

    Veronica Black

    A series of unexplained deaths and the sudden disappearance of a child from a Cornish hospital cause Sister Joan to begin an investigation into the matter in order to put an end to the strange and deadly events....

  • Make Your Own Valentines Kit

    Felicia Bond

    An activity kit for making twenty-five Valentines includes four rubber stamps, an ink pad, note cards, a paperback edition of Four Valentines in a Rainstorm, and a pink-trimmed plastic carrying case. Original....

  • Naughty or Nice?

    Stephanie Bond

    Cindy Warren's making a Christmas list... 1) A good haircut 2) A great report from Mr. Stanton the corporate hatchet man sent to evaluate the Chandelier House and Cindy 3) A drop-dead gorgeous man. Hotel guest Eric Quinn will do nicely. ...

  • Seekers

    Daniel J. Boorstin

    Throughout history, from the time of Socrates to our own modern age, the human race has sought the answers to fundamental questions of life: Who are we?  Why are we here?In his previous national bestsellers, The Discoverers and The Creators...

  • A Home For Christmas

    Barbara Boswell
    in

    CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WITH THE FORTUNE FAMILY Wealth. Power. And everlasting love. These were the things the Fortunes honored. And the annual company Christmas party, Chase, Ryder and Hunter were given exactly one year to fulfill those family tradit...

  • Sam Gunn Forever

    Ben Bova

    The incorrigible Sam Gunn, an interplanetary con man with a Napoleonic complex, undertakes a new set of adventures that have him scheming his way from one end of the solar system to the other. Original....

  • O Little Town of Glory

    Judith Bowen

    The town of Glory -- a good place to go for Christmas! Calgary lawyer Honor Templeman makes a shocking discovery after her husband's death. Parker Templeman had another wife -- and two children! They lived in the small ranching community of Glor...

  • Minions of the Moon

    Richard Bowes

    Kevin Grierson has a Shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamor of advertising to the dark glamor of hustling an...

  • Brazen Heiress

    Elizabeth Boyle

    FEMME FATALE... Napoleon lusted for her fortune while Paris swooned at her feet. Adelaide de Chevenoy, claimant to the de Chevenoy fortune, captivated jaded Parisians with her fresh beauty and mysterious past. No one suspected that the newly returne...

  • Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines

    Ray Bradbury

    In the stories of Ray Bradbury, readers have journeyed beyond the boundaries set by their imaginations, and have reveled in fantastic realms created by "one of the world's outstanding storytellers" (Toronto Globe & Mail). Now this prolific writer ...

  • The Abandoned Outlaw

    Max Brand

    A collection of three classic short novels from the master of western fiction includes The Gold King Turns His Back, in which a young woman learns the true meaning of honor; The Three Crosses, in which a showdown occurs, and The A...

  • At a Glance

    Lee Brandon

  • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear // Hawken's Heart

    Suzanne Brockmann

    SOMETHING WORTH FIGHTING FOR As Christmastime settled quietly over the countryside, Navy SEAL William "Crash" Hawken was faced with a deadly conspiracy. And he had only one person to turn to -- the caring passionate Nell Burns. For though Crash ha...

  • Leaving Cheyenne

    Bill Brooks

    IT WAS THE WINTER WHEN HORSES FROZE. MEN WENT CRAZY-AND WOMEN WEPT. Quint McCannon had fought and survived the Civil War -- and faced killers and madmen across the frontier. But nothing had prepared him for one brutal winter in Cheyenne. Or for a ...

  • Horse Fever

    Bonnie Bryant

    January is the cruelest month, at least for the Saddle Club. The weather is miserable: cold, rainy, and muddy. No one can go riding outside, and everyone is sick and tired of being inside. The only things left to do are clean tack and ride in the ind...

  • A Cafe on the Nile

    Bartle Bull

    East Africa, 1935. A nation sits at the brink of war, a city is fraught with conspiracy, and at the Cataract Café in Cairo, a colorful cast of characters - professional hunter Anton Rider, his estranged wife and her Italian lover, the pampered Ameri...

  • The Dragonslayers Apprentice

    David Calder

    Enjoying the challenges of being a Dragonslayer's apprentice, which include complaining townspeople, a hawk-eyed Dragonslayer, and dragons with bad attitudes, Jackie thrives on the adventures that come her way. Original....

  • I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

    Trey Callaway

    Presents the screenplay for the sequel to the popular horror film "I Know What You Did Last Summer," in which Julie, the survivor of the previous film, and her new friends face danger while on vacation in the Caribbean...

  • My Lady Ghost

    June Calvin

    A Haunting Love Left penniless after her husband's death, pretty widow Allison Weatherby was blissfully happy under the kind care of Thorne D'Aumont, the dashing Marquess of Silverthorne. Soon friendship turned into an undeniable passion -- but wh...

  • A Horse for Christmas

    Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses--and ...

  • How Many Can Play?

    Susan Canizares

  • A Family for Jeanne

    Joyce Carlow
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    Matthew Schmidt's offer of shelter from the coming winter seems like a dream come true for Jeanne Bellefontaine and her little sister who have just arrived in Boston... until Jeanne discovers she's falling for this kind, handsome blacksmith. But firs...

  • Highland Desire

    Joyce Carlow

    At just seventeen, reckless young Glynis MacPherson could out-shoot, out-ride, out-maneuver most men -- until she met her match in Robert Forbes, a proud, strapping clansman who dismissed her as a child. Enraged, Glynis married another as Robert join...

  • Shaking a Leg

    Angela Carter

    "An electrifying intellectual autobiography, with all the narrative expanse, drama, outrage, and high comedy of the author’s fiction. Angela Carter is revealed here, anew, as one of the most important thinkers of twentieth-century world literature ...

  • Territorial Bride

    Linda Castle

    BROOKS JAMES THOUGHT HE'D LEFT HIS DANDY DAYS BEHIND HIM... But when Missy O'Bannion, the wildfire cowgirl who'd lassoed his heart, set her sights on becoming a lady with a capital L, he traded the wide-open spaces of the West for the gilded stree...

  • Samantha's Heart

    Pamela Quint Chambers

    SNOW BELLS AND SWEET DESIRE Samantha Spencer had big dreams for a smalltown girl: to be a trailblazer, never just a wife. Her exciting job in Chicago as one of America's first woman reporters put her on the road to fame...until she was fired....

  • The Gentleman Caller

    Megan Chance

    HE IS NO GENTLEMAN... After five long, hard years in prison, Jack Waters knows a lot about survival, but now he's caught in the most difficult situation he's ever faced. His new job at one of the best banks in antebellum New Orleans could turn his l...

  • Cowboy Santa

    Judy Christenberry

    Dear Santa, Please bring me a train and a horse. The horse can sleep in my bed. Oh, and a daddy! He can sleep in Mama's bed. Your friend, Brady Evans Stand-in Santa Sam Crawford knew all about horses, but what he knew about kids could fi...

  • Mountain Bike Mania

    Matt Christopher

    Is Will pedaling out of control? Will Matthews is lousy at all sports, but even he knows how to ride a bike. He just never dreamed that it could be such a rush! Soon after he joins a mountain biking club, he's hurtling down hills, pedaling over mu...

  • Pink Slip

    Rita Ciresi

    Lisa Diodetto's mother may be ready for her to get married but Lisa isn't. At her sister's wedding she ducks when the bridal bouquet comes floating her way, and the only "eligible bachelor" in Lisa's life is her beloved gay cousin, Dodie.Ditching her...

  • Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller

    Marilyn Clay

    SHE'S YOUNG AND INNOCENT Miss Eliza Foxburn is genuinely alarmed. Her widower father, Sir Richard, is courting a young lady whose family is in trade! Worse, the chit is only nineteen -- but one year older than Eliza. The tendre is making her pap...

  • Be My Guest

    Caroline Clemmons

    TAKE IT EASY Aurora O'Shaughnessy comes by her flaming red hair naturally -- and this independent city woman has an inner fire to match. Nothing stops Aurora -- nothing short of a Texas flash flood, that is. When rancher Will Harrison rescues ...

  • A Missing Suspect

    Laura Coburn

    Kate Harrod, head of the Homicide Division in a small California town, must overcome feelings of guilt as she investigates the case of the young wife of a prominent businessman, who is found dead only hours after visiting the police station. Original...

  • So Far Gone

    Paul Cody


    A haunting, disturbing book about the life of a man on Massachusetts' death row

    Jack Connor is on death row for murdering his father, mother, and grandmother, and he is scheduled to be the first person executed in Massachusetts in fifty ye...

  • Revenge

    Jackie Collins

    The fourth installment in the sexy, thrilling four-part L.A. Connections miniseries, a behind-the-curtains peek into the exclusive mansions of Hollywood where the city's most powerful players willingly risk it all for love, lust, and murder, from New...

  • Angels Flight

    Michael Connelly

    An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it...

  • Papa Tells Chita a Story

    Floyd Cooper

    In a companion to the award-winning Chita's Christmas Tree, Chita's papa, now a doctor, tells his imaginative little girl about the secret mission he went on while a soldier during the Spanish-American war. Reprint....

  • Tournament Trouble

    Emily Costello

    The Stars go to a tournament in Chicago with great expectations--soccer by day, room service at night. The tournament is fun fun fun. Until Tess gets an offer to join a private school with a fantastic team. It might help her chances at making an Olym...

  • Jessica

    Bryce Courtenay

    Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds. A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is deva...

  • One Silent Night

    Debra Cowan

    A NIGHT OF PASSION She'd come back to him. That was police detective Sam Garrett's first thought. For over a year he'd denied that U.S. Marshal Dallas Kittridge was more to him than his best friend's widow. More than a beautiful woman who'd turned...

  • What We Did Last Summer

    Elizabeth Craft

    JEALOUS GAMES... Sara Connelly had the perfect summer romance with sexy Josh Nelson, the guy of her dreams. But when she returns to school, she's devastated to find out Josh already has a girlfriend. Sara does what any heartbroken girl would do ...

  • Enchanted Christmas

    Emma Craig

    Frozen Heart Noah Partridge had a cold, cold, heart. The darkly handsome man had suffered the loss of his family and livelihood, and been betrayed by his sweetheart and friends. So he set out alone on horseback to stake a claim in the wind-whipped...

  • Outrage at Blanco

    Bill Crider

    On the day the bloodthirsty gang rode into Blanco, Texas, the bank was robbed, Ellie Taine was brutally assaulted, and her husband and another man were shot dead. Something within Ellie also died that day, and she would never be the same. Shotgun at ...

  • His Ultimate Temptation

    Susan Crosby

    BEN a.k.a. THE PROTECTOR He'd only loved one woman in his life, but his fierce overprotectiveness hadn't meshed well with her strong independent streak. So they'd parted, as "just" friends. And now their life together was but a distant memory. ...

  • For All Eternity

    Heather Cullman

    A LADY FALLEN Sophie Barrington had fallen from the glittering heaven of the haut ton to the hell of servitude: Once a diamond of the first water about to marry the most eligible bachelor of the Season, she had been ruined by one foolish, innocen...

  • God

    C. Michael Curtis

    Here are thirty dazzling short stories by eminent writers of widely varying persuasions dealing with the question of faith--both its presence and its absence. The stories range from the comic to the passionate, from the skeptical to the mystical. Som...

  • A Private Eyeful

    Ruth Jean Dale

    WHO IS THAT HERO FOR HIRE? NICHOLAS CHARLES: He's flattered to be summoned for a meeting with his elusive boss, Samantha Spade. But flattery turns to annoyance when she won't tell him whose body he's supposed to be guarding! CORRINNE LEBLANC: S...

  • The Three-Cornered War

    John Dalmas

    DANGEROUS REPTILES For millennia after the collapse of the great galactic empire in a war that destroyed hundreds of whole planets, the surviving worlds of the Confederation had permitted no new scientific research. The resultant stagnation was co...

  • Third Choice

    Margot Dalton

    In Detective Jackie Kaminsky's newest case, a "perfect family man" vanishes without a trace. Now considering marriage herself, this case is causing Jackie to have serious doubts. After all, if a husband as dependable as John Stevenson can't be truste...

  • A Fine Romance

    Barbara Daly

    TAKE IT FROM THE TOP Zoe Quillan is a brilliant violinist -- and she's dedicated her life to her music. There's no time in her performing schedule for romance...until handsome newspaper publisher Alan Corbitt starts making overtures. Al...

  • Holy Terror in the Hebrides

    Jeanne M. Dams

    Vacation can be murder... A peaceful vacation on the charming Scottish island of Iona sounds idyllic to sometime sleuth Dorothy Martin. But Dorothy soon finds that while Iona is charming, her vacation won't be peaceful. Thrown in with a bickering Am...

  • A Father for Her Baby

    B.J. Daniels

    She needed protection for herself--and her baby. Kit Bannock had witnessed a murder and set a killer on her trail. Fortunately, the sexiest cowboy she'd ever seen kidnapped her for safekeeping. And while her handsome bodyguard kept her and her chi...

  • Love's Legacy

    Denise Daniels

    HE WANTED TO HATE HER In 1888 Pennsylvania, coal is survival, and the wealthy mine barons are its keepers. But for the miners, it's a treacherous way of life. Railroad owner Jesse Sinclair lost his father in a tragic coal mining accident and has n...

  • Nanotech

    Jack Dann

    Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Greg Egan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Geoffrey A. Landis are among the contributors to a collection of ten stories about self-cloning machines with the capability to build or change any structure, including the human body. Or...

  • Silent Stranger

    Peggy Darty

    In 1898 Ruth and her father, Doc Wright, came to the Klondike, where the gold rush has attracted many hopeful souls seeking their fortunes. One of the first persons Ruth meets is a gold miner named Joe Spencer. Ruth knows Joe is hiding several sec...

  • Two Tiny Claws

    Brett Davis

  • Flight of the Serpent

    Val Davis

    DEATH IN THE DESERT On a dig at the edge of the sun-seared Sonoran Desert, archaeologist Nicolette Scott witnesses a bizarre plane crash that leaves a young man dead in the cockpit of his mangled, burning Cessna. Federal investigators call it pilo...

  • Prince of Thieves

    Saranne Dawson

    Unwilling to relinquish her father's prosperous estate and marry a man she despised, Lady Maryana was dispatched to the now-occupied land of her kingdom's ancient enemies. The recent war had left the land and its inhabitants bereft of food and hope. ...

  • The Millionaire's Christmas Wish

    Shawna Delacorte

    ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS... When millionaire Chance Fowler first kissed the pretty stranger in his arms, he'd only meant to dodge the photographers who'd tailed him. Then she ran off -- but he couldn't forget her tempting taste on his ...

  • Mama Rocks the Empty Cradle

    Nora Deloach

    Two things Mama knows: sweet-potato pie...and murder.Old bones and buried secrets...I would have thought a bunion operation might slow Mama down, but I should have known better. We found ourselves knee-deep in somebody else's trouble even before the ...

  • The Bachelor Bid

    Kate Denton

    And the winner is... The one woman who didn't bid! Cara Breedon is facing her biggest career challenge to date -- to convince impossible, attractive and eminently eligible bachelor Wyatt McCauley to auction himself off for charity. Cara has tr...

  • Saint's Temptation

    Debra Dier

    A man hardened by war must fight to resist the temptation of the only woman he has ever loved, the one woman who broke his heart. After his young love Marisa Grantham ended their engagement, Clayton Trevelyan, Earl of Huntingdon, had no intention...

  • Insurrection

    J.M. Dillard

    Star Trek: The Next Generation is the most popular, longest-running series in science fiction history. Now, after the spectacular worldwide success of Star Trek: First Contact, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise return to...

  • Touched by Fire

    Greg Dinallo

    Southern California's lethal fire season consumes tinder-dry hills, torches homes, and destroys dreams. But now one woman is about to awake to a living nightmare. . . .

    Lilah Graham--brilliant research scientist by day, driven to link violent ...

  • Batman Animated

    Paul Dini

    From Emmy Award-winning-producer Paul Dini and acclaimed designer Chip Kidd comes Batman Animated, the behind-the-scenes story of the hit show that revolutionized television animation and brought a stunning new look to the legendary Caped Crusader. S...

  • Winning Is Everything

    Cameron Dokey

    Desperate to match the rest of her family by winning an award, Stephanie enters the election for class president, even though it means running against her best friend, Allie, and possibly losing her friendship. Original....

  • Wrong Information Is Being Given Out at Princeton

    J.P. Donleavy

    Alfonso Stephen O'Kelly known as Stephen, son of rumoured former bootleggers, ex-naval gunner, unemployed compuser, student of dairy cattle in Wisconsin and of music in Italy, has little to recommend him as a marriage prospect but his tender heart, h...

  • Dead in the Water

    Carola Dunn

    Witty, spirited, and oh-so-British, Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries perfectly capture the charm of the classic cozy. In the latest installment of her wildly popular series, it is July, 1923, and the Honorable Daisy is off to the races, trying...

  • Witness for the Defense

    Michael C. Eberhardt

    Public Defender Hunter Dobbs finds his reputation on the line when he's falsely accused of coercing a witness's testimony. An unlikely ally comes to his rescue: the beautiful and brilliant lawyer Sarah Harris, daughter of Hunter's longtime nemesis b...

  • Lone Eagle

    Cassie Edwards

    She was born in bondage... Creamy-skinned, raven-haired Zondra Poole was the daughter of a slave, living in a shack on her father's vast ranch, unable even to claim his name. She swore no man would ever own her again as she escaped to a Crow I...

  • Heaven Sent

    Marian Edwards

    SWEPT BACK IN TIME. Steady, unpretentious Regan Carmichael and high-powered, larger-than-life Drew Daniels are on opposite sides of a heated political race. But when a plane crash downs the two candidates to flaming horror, a united act of courage c...

  • The Year Father Christmas Came Calling

    Monique Ellis
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    Snow falling in great drifts across the countryside, a Yule log blazing on an open hearth, an angel-topped tree sparkling in all its holiday finery. Christmas is a time for dreams to come true, for longings to be fulfilled, and for three young ladies...

  • Wolverine: Not Dead Yet

    Warren Ellis

    Wolverine's past is full of nasty characters, but few as fiendish as the White Ghost, a murderous mercenary whom Logan thought he'd left for dead during his spy years! But this Ghost won't be laid to rest until he's run Wolverine through a gauntlet o...

  • That Special Smile

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    He ravished her senses and savored her with every touch and taste.... Russ Tandy was still the handsome heartthrob she remembered, but Tory Grenville had to remind herself she wasn't the skinny, tongue-tied class brain any longer! Pleased whe...

  • The Hi-Lo Country

    Max Evans

    At its heart, The Hi Lo Country is the story of the friendship between two men, their mutual love of a woman, and their allegiance to the harsh, dry, achingly beautiful New Mexico high-desert grassland. The story is told by Pete, a young ranch hand, ...

  • Longarm and the Nevada Nymphs

    Tabor Evans

    Just when Longarm finally corners the law-breaking Hunsacker clan in a Nevada ghost town, three pretty ladies claiming to be betrothed to the Hunsacker boys ride in, making Longarm suspect a trap, with beauty as the bait. Original....

  • Wife in the Mail

    Marie Ferrarella

    WRONG BROTHER Dr. Shayne Kerrigan thought his brother's mail-order bride would be boarding the next flight out of Alaska once she learned of her fiance's sudden marriage. Instead, Sydney Elliot just picked up her bag, dusted off her pride, and, w...

  • Twelve Nights

    Amy J. Fetzer
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    Brave knight Draegon of Wessex fears no man, but when he abducts his betrothed from a convent, he's stunned to find the once-docile Julianna is a spitfire bride. His brilliant scheme to court her extravagantly over the twelve days of Christmas se...

  • Jazz Age Stories

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    "A generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken", was how F. Scott Fitzgerald defined his age. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this statement better exemplified than in Fitzgerald's first two volumes of ...

  • The Fire Opal

    Connie Flynn

    Liz Deveraux thought she had escaped the rumors and superstitions that haunted her as a child. But then her mother's funeral brought her back to Louisiana--back to the veiled whispers of dark magic that surrounded her family, and back into the arms o...

  • The Man In Red

    Kathryn Fox
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    It's the bleak winter of 1877, and Anna Parker fears that the presents from Santa will be meager this year for the group of orphans she tenderly cares for. But when she finds wounded Canadian Mountie, Ben Parker, and nurses him to recovery, he ma...

  • Conrad's Quest for Rubber

    Leo Frankowski

    ONWARD AND OUTWARD Conrad Stargard has come a long way since he was first transported from the twentieth century to the thirteenth. Thanks to his knack for "inventing" such astonishing things as steam engines, machine guns, radios, and riverboats,...

  • Drive, She Said

    Sandy Fraser

    WAY TO GO Abby Carter has to hitch a ride with her former sweetheart -- but she has a feeling he's going to drive her crazy all over again. Because Vito Bascone is irresistible...and he knows it. He's more than happy to play chauffeur,...

  • Coffee to Die For

    Linda French

    The Price of Coffee Can Break You... By occupation, history professor Teodora Morelli dwells on the past, but it's her family's present that always demands her attention. Teddy finds herself at a Seattle coffee roasting factory where her brother-in-...

  • Constitution

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Continuing the powerful story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped shape a Starfleet captain...Gary Mitchell is dead, killed by his best friend for the sake of his ship. As Captain Kirk returns home in sadness, he recalls the first time he h...

  • Republic

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Revealed at last, the full story of Jim Kirk's lost friend, the man who helped him become the captain we know...Stardate 1312.4. -- A young Captain Kirk, early in his legendary career, faces the crisis of his life when he must kill his best friend in...

  • A Baby in His Stocking

    Hayley Gardner

    HERO OF THE HOLIDAYS Bah, humbug! Some Scrooge was sabotaging the season of joy. Making mincemeat of Shea Burroughs's merriness. And the only man who could save the day was Jared Burroughs, Shea's beloved -- estranged -- husband. Shea hung...

  • The Scotsman

    Juliana Garnett

    SHE WAS HIS SWORN ENEMY -- AND THE WOMAN HE DARED TO LOVE Proud and fierce, Alexander Fraser fights for the lands and title the English stole from his family -- and for the Scots dream of freedom. Now he's lost what's closest to his heart:...

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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Elizabeth Gunn

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    Rick Hanson

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    Sue Harrison

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    Tim Hemlin

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    Willa Hix

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    Joan Hohl

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    Joan Hohl

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    Craig Holden

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    Kay Hooper

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    Charlotte Hughes

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    Fred W. Hunter

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    Jillian Hunter

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    Sharon Ihle

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    Tony Isabella; Bob Ingersoll

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    Ian Jack

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    Monica Jackson

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    Samantha James

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    Jane Jensen

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    Muriel Jensen

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    Guy Johnson

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    William W. Johnstone

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    Diana Wynne Jones

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    Jill Jones
    in

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    Veda Boyd Jones

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    Penny Jordan

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    in

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    Cameron Judd

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    Kathleen Kane

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    Debra Kastner

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    Jamie Katz

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    Marilyn Kaye

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    Carolyn Keene

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    Anne Kelleher

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    Jonathan Kellerman

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    Ellen Kelley

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    Marne Davis Kellogg

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    Sharon Kendrick

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    Leo Kessler

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    Garry Kilworth

    "There Can Be Only One"

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    Sherwood Kiraly

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